Tongan Language Week

We are so lucky to have lots of different cultures here at Sacred Heart. This week we are celebrating Tongan Language Week. We are practicing the days of the week, greetings and the sign of the cross in Tongan. Apai is very proud of his Tongan heritage and very happy to be sharing his language with Tui.

Welcome to Isabel

Olivia and the rest of Tui class were excited to welcome another new Tui, Isabel. At school prayer her 2 big brothers Henry and Reuben stood up to introduce her to the rest of the school. Welcome Isabel it's great to have you here!

Junior Trip to the Dowse Art Gallery

As part of our Inquiry unit on Petone's Past, the Junior Team visited The Dowse Art Gallery. We had a session in the 'Our Nostalgia' exhibition and another at the wharekai Nuku Tuwaharetoa. We chose some of our favourite things from the exhibition to draw and take home to talk about.

Leading School Prayer

Monday morning Tui class stood up in front of the whole school and helped lead our prayer. We shared our cards that we had made on reminders of how ways we can try to listen to the Holy Spirit and live out our school values.
Sharing in front of everyone can be quite a scary thing to do when you are 5, and we were all fantastic. Mrs Pennington was so proud of us all especially Tom who only arrived back at school after a month away overseas.

Windy days for tui

Today we ran outside in the cold strong wind then raced back inside to our warm cosy classroom buzzing with ideas for our writing.

Starting early in Tui class.

Anthony came for his first school visit. He brought his mum and his gorgeous younger sister Maria for support. Maria is only 2 but doesn't she look ready for school in her very own uniform.

Weather bomb hits tui

The hail hit school on Tuesday and Tui class thought it was amazing. Brave Mrs Pennington ran outside and collected a container for us to feel. I

Special visitors to Tui

On Friday we got to catch up with our big buddies from Pukeko and read together.

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Today we had a special visitor Olivia's cousins Tom & Lucy & their Mum, the famous fantastic story teller & singer Ms Mahony ( Auntie Jenny)

 Leadership is important to us here at Sacred Heart and 2 or our ex-pupils that are currently Year 13's at St Bernards came to talk to us about the importance of reading and their views on leadership.

Welcome to Zephannia

With 2 of our jet setting Tui's overseas and a few nasty bugs going around, the numbers in Tui Class have been quite low over the last couple of week,. so we were thrilled to welcome Zephannia yesterday. His big sister Vitannia helped keep an eye on him but he didn't need her at all and he settled in with a smile.

Every morning Tui start the day with Te Karere. This is a chance to share our news with a buddy. We know we have to face each other, listen carefully and take turns. Here's Apai and Mia catching up.